The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.

It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.

Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public

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.

The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.