The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.