Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
Those who won’t hesitate to vivisect, won’t hesitate to lie about it as well.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young.
The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
It’s just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it’s wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.
Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.
Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.
Religion is a great force – the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don’t understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
I can’t talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
A man’s own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.