To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

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.

More than ever, I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity to cope with change.

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

Ghouls weren't smart, but like the Energizer Bunny they kept going and going.

It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

This was the kind of dress that changed the world. The kind of dress that started religions.

Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.