If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.

I believe a lot in the relationship between performers. When you're supported by someone's eyes, you're not alone.

Some of you may think that you are not of interest because you don't have access to classified information. You are mistaken.

Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade.