There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

The stock actor is a stage calamity

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity