If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.