God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

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.

That August, Elodie Selkirk became the latest lady in Paris to order a coin-operated boy.

If Lincoln were alive today he'd be turning over in his grave.

So long as there's been black churches in the United States, there's been a relationship between spiritual well-being and material acquisition. This has always been the case.

I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.

Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

Film is a battleground.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.