The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

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.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.

Sometimes I just like to listen to unknown people, that can be really, really cool. I like going on blogs and stuff.

I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.

It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me.