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

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

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

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.