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.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.

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

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

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

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