Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

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.

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.

Good historians...have the future in their bones

what a life without a smile, so show some life smile

Gratitude is a Beautiful Virtue but don't get offended when ingratitude is shown or your good deeds.

The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or that God is good, but you know He is. It is the up and down of the journey.

Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

I got run over by a bug-eyed dummy, I guess.