Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

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

Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.