Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

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.

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 heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Why do we tend to treasure our health best, only when it is in jeopardy?

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.

I am a monarch of God's creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ.

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere.