Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?

Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.