Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

You can crush a man with journalism.