Quotes By Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.