We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.