America is a stronger nation for the ACLU's uncompromising effort.

Lansdale seized on the idea of using Nixon to build support for the [Vietnamese] elections ... really honest elections, this time. "Oh, sure, honest, yes, that's right," Nixon said, "so long as you win!" With that he winked, drove his elbow into La

I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

Black people have never rioted. A riot is what white people think blacks are involved in when they burn stores.

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.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Sho' they got to have it against the law. Shoot, ever'body git high, they wouldn't be nobody git up and feed the chickens. Hee-hee.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Language is a virus from another planet.

Ye've also got to remember that ... respectable people do the most astonishin' things to preserve their respectability. Thank God I'm not respectable.

I realize that the MX missile is none of our concern. I realize that the whole point of living in a democracy is that we pay professional congresspersons to concern themselves with things like the MX missile so we can be free to concern ourselves wi

You just wait, I'll sin till I blow up!

Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]

If a fool persists in his folly he shall become wise.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.