Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.

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.

But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

Give yourself without expecting any return.

I always wanted to play a lawyer.

But though that place I never gain, Herein lies comfort for my pain: I will be worthy of it.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song

I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.