The heart is the best logician.

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.

Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer.

...and if you hear something you know, please sing along. No wait - I take that back - you can't sing along - this is about me now - this is my show.

Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.

It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

Some people say you can get hepatitis if you do coke with ones because they've been handled so much. But I tested that theory out for about a year, and I decided it's bullshit.

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being