Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.