I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

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.

Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

By only becoming aware of Krishna's greatness we can become aware of our minuteness. That's the way to become Humble.

It ain't a party til something gets broken.

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.