Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.

Self-struggle is spiritual.

Cats will be cats.

Sum up at night what thou has done by day.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do.

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.