When I Was A Boy I Was

Any One Who Thinks Is An Agnostic About Something, Otherwise He Must Believe That He Is Possessed Of All Knowledge. And The Proper Place For Such A Person Is In The Madhouse Or The Home For The Feeble-minded.

Punishment As Punishment Is Not Admissible Unless The Offender Has Had The Freewill To Select His Course.

Everything Serious That He Says Is A Joke And Everything Humorous That He Says Is Dead Serious.

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.

If Today You Can Take A Thing Like Evolution And Make It A Crime To Teach It In The Public School, Tomorrow You Can Make It A Crime To Teach It In The Private Schools, And The Next Year You Can Make It A Crime To Teach It To The Hustings Or In The Church. At The Next Session You May Ban Books And Newspapers. Soon You May Set Catholic Against Protestant And Protestant Against Protestant, And Try To Foist Your Own Religion Upon The Minds Of Men.