Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital. – Heywood Broun
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. – Heywood Broun
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. – Heywood Broun
In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist. – Heywood Broun