What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

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.

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

If I had to, I was going to rip every inch of me open, give him as much blood as he needed to survive.

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].

I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

It is only through the home that a people can become really good and truly great.

Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.

Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view.