Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

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.

that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

This summer one-third of the nation will be ill-housed ill-nourished and ill-clad. Only they call it a vacation.

I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.'

His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel.

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

Strike fast, strike hard, strike often.

If I would believe what I read about myself, I would hate my guts too.