Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
The fact that I have no remedy for the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong possibility that yours is a fake.
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop.
A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right.
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
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