Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for . . . the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.

When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.

Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to be driven to church by having all other places closed. In my judgment the theater has done good, while the church has done harm. The drama never has insisted upon burning anybody. Persecution is not born of the stage.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.