Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.

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.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

What, after all, was the point of civilization if not the well-being of citizens?

I've had an incredible life with a lot of triumphs, my share of heartbreak, and some pretty amazing experiences.

As actors, we have to be able to keep ourselves open to feel, and that's a life lesson I think many people don't get a chance to learn. In my personal life, I've learned to carry this lesson with me.

It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.

If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.

It seemed she was in a cathedral—if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of years of water weeping through stone.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.

I have had no professional training.