The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.

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

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

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

I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.