I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.

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.

In nature there is no death, Only a reshuffling of atoms.

Every day is a new beginning. Take a deep breath and start again

Many people asked me to convert. I said my religious convictions remain. I am fighting the wrongs within my own community. And if I decide to convert I will lose the right to fight.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

If the shoe fits, buy it.

Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.

God chooses people not for what He can do for them, but for the good they can do for others.

I put a lot of emphasis on childrens issues. Children are many times ignored because they dont vote, and they dont have lobby groups.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.