"What a lie it is to call..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.”

“The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.”

“To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.”

“No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.”

“Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.”

“A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so long as he does not disturb the general peace. If any other citizen, offended by the spectacle, makes a pother, then that other citizen, and not the man exercising his inalienable right, should be put down by the police.”

“When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.”

“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.”

“The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.”