It'll be just like Beggars' Canyon back home.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

Long ago I proposed that unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency be quietly hanged, as a matter of public sanitation and decorum. The sight of their grief must have a very evil effect upon the young.

Don't get the idea that I'm one of those goddamn radicals. Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system.

There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.