Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.