Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken of. All I saw in the story was some Irishmen meeting in a room and talking politics. What had that to do with America, especially with my people? It was not until years later that I saw what he meant ... I began to listen, to listen closely to how they talked about their heroes, to how they talked about the dead and how great the dead had once been. I heard it everywhere.

The theory of government changes with general progress.

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.