If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

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

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

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.

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.

Different strokes for different folks.