The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

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.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

I was born modest, but it didn't last.