Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.