Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself