“The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.”

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

You can only be free if I am free.

Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?

I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.

It’s important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

You need to listen to us, us who cannot vote. You need to vote for us, for your children and grandchildren. What we are doing now can soon no longer be undone.

We’re Children, Teenagers, Women. We aren’t flames, but we have fire in us.

I let my mind wander and it always finds its way back to you. like a sweet-toothed child in search of a cookie jar.

Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.

As a child, I loved playing hide & seek, but now it seems like I’ve been lost for a long, & no one is looking for me.