The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

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.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

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.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.