History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

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.

The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.

Neither you, nor me, are "just vampires." Being vampires is just a part of what we are. There is no need to feel bound and chained by it.

Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.

We never get so near God as when we plead for others.

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.