There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.