The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

Ideally, the star will be replaced within eight hours. This sends the message that no single individual is bigger than the company.

London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.