The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.

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.

Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.

Prongs rode again last night... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night... You found him inside yourself.

Unfortunately, beer was only a short-term answer. And head transplants had yet to be approved by the FDA.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio.

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call