Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we "modify" before we print.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.