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

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

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

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.