Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.