This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
You must stand for free speech in the streets.
The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
I will tell the truth wherever I please.
I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.
I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me
It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these!
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical organizations may secondarily grow.
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing. . . Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?