Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

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

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

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

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

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.