The best sentence? The shortest.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.