"The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own..." - Quote by Walter Winchell

“Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.”

“Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.”

“Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well.”

“The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional criminals believe, to wit, that, it is neither virtuous nor necessary to suffer and to do without.”

“Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”

“I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.”

“What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.”

“Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.”

“How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.”