The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.