I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

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