What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

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.

Everyone is wrong about the future.

What are memories but photo images from the mind? Isn't the human mind so much like a camera, saving pictures every now and then?

A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.

Romney-Ryan is likely the best matched 'team' that has been on a national ticket in a very long time.

It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.

Somehow when you see a politician kiss a baby, shake a hand -- kiss anything -- it is tainted.

If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

We will never-and I mean never-turn our backs on our employees.

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.