Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!

In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.