“Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
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“I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding”
“The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.”
“That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.”
“Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!”
“Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.”
“The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.”
“We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?”
“Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.”
“An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.”
“When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?”
“You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.”
“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”
“Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.”
“You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”
“Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.”
“The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.”
“Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?”
“Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.”
“Corruption is not a Canadian value!”