We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.