America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure that is all that agnosticism means.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure that is all that agnosticism means.