Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the peop….

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business..

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth..

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or….

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics..

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack..

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies..

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

I think the first duty of society is justice..

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symb….

The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington..

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

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

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage..

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator..

It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you….

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government..

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back..

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality..

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few..