To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

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.

We all have our personal Andes.

You know? Ain’t it ironic how we live our entire lives without the luxury of time, only to spend an eternity in death.

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

Cartooning is an honorable thing

The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.

Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.