What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.