The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads.

Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.