“diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.”

“Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.”

“VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”

“Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.”

“Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.”

“Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.”

“Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”