The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.