Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."