Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

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

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

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