Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.