It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.
ours are the only farmers who can read Homer
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that. . . it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.
It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.
I play every game like it's going to be my last.
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.