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

What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

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

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.