I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that f...or twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whisky, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops ... I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you'll think of me, I'll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low ta...x rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life ... [which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for ten yea...rs and over my salaries have not equalled my expenses, and there has been a feeling of responsibility, a lack of independence, and a necessary neglect of my family and personal interests and comfort, which make the prospect of a change comfortable to think of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thirty thousand dollars is not the annual expense of the Executive Mansion. That may not be over twenty-five thousand dollars ...but it is about right for my total expenses. I have paid between six thousand dollars and seven thousand dollars for political purposes for the advantage of the Republican cause ... and rather large expenditures for dependents.... I shall leave here in debt from twenty thousand to twenty-five thousand dollars, but with a good credit, plenty of property, and in no sense needing pecuniary aid or sympathy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a... real loser--in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income, ...for I was obliged to dress and train, not to say think and believe, accordingly, and I lost my time into the bargain. As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men, but simply for a livelihood, this was a failure. I have tried trade; but I found that it would take ten years to get under way in that, and that then I should probably be on my way to the devil. I was actually afraid that I might by that time be doing what is called a good business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was discontented and wasted his life into the bargain; and yet he rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could ...get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labor of my hands, and I found that, by working about six weeks in... a year, I could meet all the expenses of living. The whole of my winters, as well as most of my summers, I had free and clear for study.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the yearly expenses of the existing religious system ... exceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty mill...ions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lucy: I know I'll enjoy Oklahoma City. Jerry: But, of course. And if it should get dull, you can always go to Tulsa for the w...eekend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »