Society and the World

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.

It is the folly of too many, to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

It is the folly of too many, to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

I s’pect I growed. Don’t think nobody never made me.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

I’m with you on the free press. It’s the newspapers I can’t stand.

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone, Say, could that lad be I?

A child should always say what’s true,

Marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much:—surely that may be his epitaph, of which he need not be ashamed.

Every one lives by selling something.

The young man who asks you to set him one heart-beat from the Presidency of the United States.

We hear the Secretary of State boasting of his brinkmanship—the art of bringing us to the edge of the abyss.

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes!

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

If they [the Republicans] will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.