Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.

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.

Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.

We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.

You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture." —Bella Swan