There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.]

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

There are no ugly cigars, only ugly smokers.

The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no means of resistance? Obviously they have. The worst tyrant, even under democratic plutocracy, has but one throat to slit. The moment the majority decided to overthrow him he would be overthrown. But the majority lacks the resolution; it cannot imagine taking the risks.