Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

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.

Love is basic of success.

Happiness will teach you to live your life and pain will tell you the way.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.

It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

Great thinking is its own reward.

You're my best friend in the scene and together we can make sense of what's going on by being Together.

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.