The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

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.

To ease a grieving heart is the world's greatest pleasure, more so, when the heart is yours.

If you're brave enough to do something you better damn well be brave enough to accept the consequences.

Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.

The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.

I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.

I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature.

This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.

He taught people with his best way. He showed his beauty. He was all good so peace be on him and his family.