History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

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.

She got me to crack open the window to my soul, and I really don't want to slam it down on her fingers just yet.

Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, 'Why is that person staring at me?'

God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.

I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

I've never written songs about relationships. I've written songs about how I feel. The songs are more about me, than another person. That's the way I like to look at it.

To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts.

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