"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

"I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the U…"

"Filthy to others, to me they are not filthy, but illustrious; while critics consider those subjects from the point of view of persons standing on the lowest animal and infidelistic platform. Which, th…"

"God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards."

"Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history."