Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

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.

This is, perhaps, the greatest challenge of our time – to love in the absence of any immediate rewards for our love.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

No use going to class unless you go to the library.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.