Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

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.

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

Liberia can move on and break from the past. That is very important for us to try to achieve our development goals and reconcile our nation.

In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.

Whatever the occasion, [the Queen] has a face which demonstrably says 'I don't give a royal s**t.'

Work ethics eliminates fear.

If possible, try to talk good about others, always. By telling good about another person, you will help yourself and another person.

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.