Every society has the criminals it deserves.

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.

Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.