We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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 cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate

The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.

You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

I have always been a fan of reality by majority vote.

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?