If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

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.