Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.