Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure any more that in a give….

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite..

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man..

The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere ….

Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with….

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century..

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty..

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the….

Liberals have many tails and chase them all..

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions hav….

There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to be ….

Honor is simply the morality of superior men..

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his….

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair….

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body..

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limi….

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them..

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have chara….

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram..

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them th….

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ine….