Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

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

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

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

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.