We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

This type of a margins tax would be paid whether you were profitable or not. Unprofitable businesses would just become more unprofitable.

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.