"My point is, if another country does to us what we do to others, we‘re not going to like it very much. So I would say that maybe we ought to consider a golden rule in — in foreign policy. ... We endlessly bomb . . . these countries and then we wonder — wonder why they get upset with us? And — and yet it — it continues on and on. This idea that we can‘t debate foreign policy, then all we have to do is start another war? I mean, it‘s — it‘s warmongering. ... They‘re building up for another war against Iran, and people can‘t wait to get in another war. This country doesn‘t need another war. We need to quit the ones we‘re in. We need to save the money and bring our troops home.
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Selected Quotes
"Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand!
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"I have no objection to any person's religion, be in what it may, so long as that person does not kill or murder any other in its name.
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"The sea is his; he is but a copycat of the true owner.
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"To preach the Truth to him who knew it not, is but to give him a little time to run about the world in misery and desolation.
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"Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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"As for finish, that reminds me of the old Scriptural exhortation to some to pray without ceasing – but I never knew how to go about it.
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"I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er we sail.
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"Thou showest thy black side; and again, thy loveliest Isle of Love is just as- Black.
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"I'll try a pagan friend; since Christian kindness has proved so hollow-hearted.
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"Is there no middle ground between mammon and mammoth?
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"Unbidden curses blasted him, and how, O Jane, Joan, you might have snatched back the eternity of general fancy. Now it was too late!
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"Oh, ye foolish! Throw all these thunderheads into the ocean – you are but a conservative man.
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"Yes, this was the life; saving up pennies on the damp pavement, and then I'll ruin them with dry flour and grease.
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"That root is to hit the hardest, you'd think it somewhat.
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"With fishbone ropes and bracelets they mock me; wearing my guard as an adversary.
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"History doesn't repeat itself, but It often rhymes
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"If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up as an old lady, then kick him down the stairs. If you want to make a comedian laugh, it has to be an actual old lady.
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"Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.
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