A newspaper is not just for reporting the news, it's to get people mad enough to do something about it.

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a long line of successive owners.

What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.