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

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.