A democracy, Mr. Cromwell, was a Greek drollery based on the foolish notion that there are extraordinary possibilities in very ordinary people. Every man who wages war believes God is on his side. I’ll wager God should often wonder who is on his. It’s an odd thing, Mr. Ireton. Every man who wages war believes … Read more
Better luck in the next world, Mr. Jones. For I have lived today. Happy he, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own. It is not true that drink alters a man’s character. It may reveal it more fully. It’s a good night to be abroad and looking for game. Sir, I … Read more
–But the world is changing fast. –I can see that. –And a man had better get with it. –What was it like out in Indian territory? –Lonely as hell. A mother-in-law horse is a horse you put your mother-in-law on. Send them both up in the hills and hope they don’t ever come back. Goodbye, … Read more