Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

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.

When a dream of dying actually becomes a chance to live... all you have to do is fall.

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

'Tis not love's going hurts my days but that it went in little ways.

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

Sometimes people just see the overall success and it overshadows our true love for music and how much we love to record. I love to record music and I love to see the reception of it even more!

There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me.

This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values