You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

All progress means war with society.