Look at the tyranny of party--at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty--a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes--and which turns voters into chattles, slaves, rabbits, and all the while their masters, and they themselves are shouting rubbish about liberty, independence, freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, honestly unconscious of the fantastic contradiction.
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey.
Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey.
Man is the only animal that deals in
that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren
about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.
... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and
works for 'the universal brotherhood of man'-- with his mouth.
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.
There are many humorous things in the world: among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out.
The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who can't.
In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.
No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pock-marked soul.
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.
There are many humorous things in the world: among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out.
The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who can't.
In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.
No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pock-marked soul.
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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