Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.