Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.