Each Child Should Be More Intelligent Than

The Lowest Standards Of Ethics Of Which A Right-thinking Man Can Possibly Conceive Is Taught To The Common Soldier Whose Trade Is To Shoot His Fellow Men. In Youth He May Have Learned The Command, 'thou Shalt Not Kill,' But The Ruler Takes The Boy Just As He Enters Manhood And Teaches Him That His Highest Duty Is To Shoot A Bullet Through His Neighbor's Heart - And This, Unmoved By Passion Or Feeling Or Hatred, And Without The Least Regard To Right Or Wrong, But Simply Because His Ruler Gives The Word.

I Am A Friend Of The Working Man, And I Would Rather Be His Friend, Than Be One.

I Had A Vivid Imagination. Not Only Could I Put Myself In The Other Person's Place, But I Could Not Avoid Doing So. My Sympathies Always Went Out To The Weak, The Suffering, And The Poor. Realizing Their Sorrows I Tried To Relieve Them In Order That I Myself Might Be Relieved.

The Purpose Of Man Is Like The Purpose Of A Pollywog - To Wiggle Along As Far As He Can Without Dying; Or, To Hang To Life Until Death Takes Him.

I Have Lived My Life, And I Have Fought My Battles, Not Against The Weak And The Poor - Anybody Can Do That - But Against Power, Against Injustice, Against Oppression, And I Have Asked No Odds From Them, And I Never Shall.