Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

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.

The profoundest of all sensualitiesis the sense of truthand the next deepest sensual experienceis the sense of justice.

Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought.

I am just focused on what's in front of me. I really can't worry about or complain about the WBO situation at this point.

No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.

You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

There is no short cut to acheivement.

Your dreams should never be better than your real life

In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.

We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.