Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

Yes, you are right - I am a moralist in disguise; it gets me into heaps of trouble when I go thrashing around in political questions

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not bet

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.