All generalizations are false, including this one.

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

We have the best government that money can buy.

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.