No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.