My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

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'll get there!

She had other friends--friends that wouldn't leave her. She had the cats.

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.

You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.

Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

It's a wonder our country doesn't implode.

I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.