The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.