I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

In calm water every ship has a good captain.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

Above all, tell the truth.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

It's like this, " Nana says. "All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green.

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

I have to wear heels. There are some things that you just have to do.

No man should have another man's voice in his head.

It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they've done themselves.

Comedians don't get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can't really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.