Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed.

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.