In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

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.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

I would say the biggest difference is that you're just in a studio by yourself when you're making an animated movie. You don't have anybody to play off of.

There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection.

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us.

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child