There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

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.

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.