Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.

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.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)

Know how you want to be treated, and expect that when you deal with people. Also remember to give people the respect that you want.

That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.

Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!

Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques.

The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

If you're just sitting around home it's just too easy to sit around and smoke pot all day and never get anything done.

Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?