A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Suicide is not a remedy