People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

When we can't dream any longer we die.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one

The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.