Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.