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.

If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.

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.

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

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.