It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.