It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily.

Love is like a bullet in the flesh. It simply Burns.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

Everyone wants to be famous so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

I think America is just so in love with conflict.

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

Fasting is a medicine.

I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.