All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

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.

speak less about what you have done. think more about what you can do

...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

Love can tame the wildest.

When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you.

I loved working with Mandy Patinkin, I have to say.

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.