Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.

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.

What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.

You can’t clean your dirty past as if you are cleaning a dirty window! All you can do is to create a clean future!

The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.

To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

God is what's good in me.

I think it's really important to always own up to the things that you're not good at and the feelings that you have which are ugly.

Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.

'Why me?' rarely produces a positive result, while 'How can I use this?' usually leads us in the direction of turning our difficulties into a driving force to make ourselves and the world better.