I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.

A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.