Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

Every new day is a divine order.

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, … chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk tomorrow's senior partner.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.

No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face.

Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.