I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

Different strokes for different folks.

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.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain 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.