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.

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.

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.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

The last time you were happy about nothing

I am not the best, I am not one of the best, but every time I will try my best.

I find myself to be quite sarcastic, and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't get that.

It's true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

Once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep.

Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.