Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

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.

[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.

Two aspects to the relative world: relaxation and time management.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

Help! The customer service representative doesn't understand my problem.

I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.

In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.

Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.