Anthony Comstock

“Books are feeders for brothels.”

“Morals, not art or literature.”

“When you find a rattlesnake on your doorstep, you don't wait to see if it will bite you; you kill it.”

“I have convicted enough persons to fill a passenger train of sixty-one coaches, sixty coaches containing sixty passengers each and the sixty-first containing thirty-five.”

“This thing is a trap for the young.”

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”

“The harvest of this seed sowing is seen in our insane asylums, our prisons, our homes for feeble-minded children, our hospitals, and in the blasted lives and ruined homes in all our communities.”