Society and the World

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race .

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race .

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

When congress is in session no American is safe.

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot .

Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.