My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too - think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder. An it isn't so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires - though a lot of churches are that, too. My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.

Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.