It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

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.

He didn't know that sometimes, the most awesome and complicated thing you can do is just stick around.

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this that the beast does but know but the man knows that he knows.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity the intolerable labour of thought.

I know I have a first-rate mind, but that's no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

There are faults we would fain pardon.

We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

She did not use it at all well mostly.

If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.