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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

When you doubt, abstain.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.