If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.