I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.