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.

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

I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.

Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.

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