There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.