There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

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.

Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.

Most of the time, your body is way ahead of your mind.

We travel to see beautiful places and to meet great souls.

People in every nation behave and respond according to the values and virtues upon which they were raised. We all are a product of our environment.

A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours.

Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.