I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure any more that in a given case they will uphold the plainest mandate of the Constitution. On the contrary, everyone begins to be more or less convinced in advance that they won't. Judges are chosen not because they know the Constitution and are in favor of it, but precisely because they appear to be against it.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.