A motion to adjourn is always in order.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.

Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.