If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

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.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

You have to push through every difficulty to achieve the goal.

I make no claims. I have set down the facts

When I sing or play music, I'm able to relieve myself of whatever it is that I'm struggling with.

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.