People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

I am not now That which I have been.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Boards don't hit back.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.