Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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