Aristocracy is always cruel.

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.

We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it doesn't matter who you are or who you think you are, you're just a person in Philly.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.

It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.

Consider any work you do, as work coming from God's will.

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people and to the world the final proof by means of the Supreme Court-Martial and its verdict.