To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of man because it works un…

- Louis J. Halle

The revolt against freedom, which can be traced back so far, is associated with a revolt against reason that [gives] sentiment primacy to evaluate ac…

- Louis J. Halle

For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a str…

- Louis J. Halle

I never heard a wood thrush until I was a grown man, though I must have been surrounded by them every spring. Each year I discover new sights and s…

- Louis J. Halle

Faith is one of those words that connotes, however irrationally, some kind of virtue in itself.

- Louis J. Halle

It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a free…

- Louis J. Halle

If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our…

- Louis J. Halle

The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankin…

- Louis J. Halle

To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations.

- Louis J. Halle