My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Don't wait the time is never just right.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.