No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Of all the classes of men, I dislike most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. All of them particip…

No government, of its own motion, will increase its own weakness, for that would mean to acquiesce in its own destruction ... governments, whatever their prete…