If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.