Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man.

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

When you go home you ought to go like a ray of light—so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.

With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.

I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man, woman, and

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living.

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.

When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

While there's no 'I' in team, there's also no 'you', okay? So back off.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

Anyone can die. It's living that requires courage.