By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

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.

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There is no greater will on earth than the will to survive. These fine people, answering my father's call to arms, had the will in spades and droves. - Lord Tristan Dracanburh, Ethandun

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

I found Him in the shining of the stars.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

I am always in the gym sparring. I look at every fight kind of like a sparring match.

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.