As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.

To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any pretext, however flimsy, and put to death with horrible tortures. No government pretending to be civilized can go on condoning such atrocities. Either it must make every possible effort to put them down or it must suffer the scorn and contempt of Christendom.

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 natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.