Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over.

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a handful of self-seeking 'supermen.' America is perhaps the best representative of this kind of individualism, in whose name political tyranny and social oppression are defended and held up as virtues; while every aspiration and attempt of man to gain freedom and social opportunity to live is denounced as 'un-American' and evil in the name of that same individuality.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.