Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.