So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

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.

You were born a winner

No. No way. That name is reserved for females with grace and elegance, not this girl. This girl is...beastly.

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.