Christianity is a battle not a dream

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.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.

Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile.

i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

I dont normally like getting dressed up, but when I go to events, I like to look put together. Ive got to say, getting in a nice suit feels good.

Things are always worse in the steady watches of the night.

I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.