When I say that a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it... But...I do not venture to assume that my inabilities in the way of thought are inabilities of the universe. I therefore define truth as the system of my limitations, and leave absolute truth for those who are better equipped.

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken."

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal