Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says: "Yes; the little ones does."

Name the greatest of all the inventors. Accident.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

It is a worthy thing to fight for ones freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.