Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

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.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up

I'm not into politics. I'm into survival.

I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.