If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

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

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn't in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences are being fundamentally revised. . . Psychology, economics, and sociology are awaiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein.

I have seen the future, and it works.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.