A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.