When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.

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

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.