Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.

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.

Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me.

When you’re very young and you’re different, you begin to believe that no one has ever been as different as you and that no one has ever felt that difference as keenly as you.

When you go through a breakup, it feels likesomeone died. And the truth is that someone has died – the relationship.

A well-lived day is medicine unto itself.

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

I get too excited about football and rugby.

I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.