Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

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.

The problem lies not with genre but with formula, which consists of seeing genre conventions as restrictions rather than mere guidelines, ends in themselves rather than possibilities.

Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events.

I don't just want someone who says they love me; I want someone who practices that love for me every day.

You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.

I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.

There are one or two young men I wouldn't mind taking home.

Nothing is perfect...We're really more interested in what we're saying than how we're saying it.

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.