Society and the World

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.

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

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Complacencies of the peignoir, and late

Politics in the middle of things that concern the imagination are like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.