All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

First catch your Boer, then kick him.

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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.