Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go.

The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained.

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

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

The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.

It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.