Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

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.

Her wedding ring, her gentle brush-offs, and her outright rejection had been minor obstacles compared to the big no of another man kissing her cheek.

Unfortunately I never learnedhow to touch my truth without breaking it.

The favour of God, forfeits the failure of men.

There is no inconsistency when God raises up those who have fallen prostrate.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max.

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.