I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself, 'All right, then, I'll GO to hell.'

H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?

The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal…

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.

I would not say that they were happy. They knew what was going to happen to them. Of course, they were told what was going to happen to them, and they were res…

At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature…

My intellect tells me: 'Tell the truth at any cost.' The Little Man in me says: 'It is stupid to expose oneself to the little man, to put oneself at his mercy.…