War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

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.

Where love is absent, violence is a glaring possibility. Introduce love into any situation and violence gradually evaporates.

Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision

You owe it to yourself to never let the society determine your necessities in life.

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.

Your stupidity is appalling!" "Most stupidity is!

I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.

In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.