Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.

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.

It's not all about mountaintops. Mostly it's about training so that you'll know the mountaintop for what it is when you get there.

Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

I don't believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It's not about height.

True visionaries are never lukewarm.

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

Family home evening is for everyone.... We need the strength that comes from family home evening.

I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and it's my favorite way of figuring an outfit.

What I can't do anywhere is be with you.

I don't see the point in apologizing to someone who remains angry enough to throw me off a cliff...unless we are standing by a cliff.