“Skepticism is the first step toward truth.”
“Education must not simply teach work—it must teach life.”
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.”
“A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.”
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
“Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”
“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.”
“All for one and one for all.”
“The Empire never ended.”
“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.”
“If you think this universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.”
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others.”
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”