Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.