Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

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.

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.

safety and love are both illusions!

Creating things makes me come alive.

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.

Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.