“How can that break down which has not been built up? How can that become debauched which already is debauched and debauching?”

“There are many who perceive that they have been tricked out of their homes and jobs by a cheap phraseology, the emptiness and deception of which they now feel keenly enough.”

“War inevitably means the steam-roller. It means crushing out every spark of initiative, of independence of mind.”

“To perpetuate stupidity and ignorance, nothing could be invented more effective than the Vote.”

“The heartlessness of the Government’s hasty reprisal is indicative of its sincerity in the stand that small nations must be guaranteed their freedom.”

“Half a dozen great nations have been engaged in killing and trying to kill each other as quickly as possible, and the resources of science have been utilized to the utmost in fashioning the most diabolical weapons of war that the human mind could imagine.”