“Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.”

“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”

“The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.”

“Statistics are no substitue for judgement.”

“An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.”

“I hope that it will yet be said, America is America's best customer.”

“[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.”