Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

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.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

The sea hath fish for every man.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?

My mother, she smiles when I come around now. My daughter's eatin' decent meals and she's in private school. She's 4 years old. She started school. It's a beautiful thing.

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

It's not the networks, it's the advertisers who want to appeal to the young males who go to the movies and buy all of this stuff.