"What is the value of any political..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.”

“The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.”

“The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.”

“Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.”

“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”

“Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.”

“Earlier today former Vermont Governor Howard Dean became the new head of the Democratic National Committee -- no word on who will be the neck.”

“I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.”

“I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.”