The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.

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.

There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.

It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.

But I had a feeling I wasn't supposed to find her that way. She was not a needle. This was not a haystack. We were people, and people had ways of finding each other.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between those movies [because of those filmmakers' influence on the industry].

It's so important to always be yourself. If you do that, you will be successful as you, instead of worrying about trying to conform.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.