Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

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.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain.

Never, ever, work for bad people

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

If I thought of the number of people who were watching me as I got ready to shoot, I?d miss it.

The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him