The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.