A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.

The lamp of light.

Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.

How can I know who's PM or in government in Sweden? It's been 40 years since I moved abroad! Oh!

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there.