Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

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.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Silence is the best defence for any argument.

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

I expect some new phases of life this summer and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Why do our kids have to show us what gun control is all about?

I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!

I've always been much more scared of the living than I am of the dead.