Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty...

Understand one another.

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.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.

The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of the child is provided with blood-curdling stories about the Germans, the French, the Italians, Russians, etc.