Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.