"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."

"People who know the least always argue the most."

"We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death."

"A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service."

"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain."

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."

"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."

"Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates."

"A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes."

"Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child."

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."