Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

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.

If you call that music real noise

Drink your Desires to taste your self!

The graveyard is an everlasting resting place.

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge.

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.

I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.