Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

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.

These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.

If you thought with your minds and not your roosters, you would get the point!

To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

The best people always care their goodness, civility, courtesy, and fairness. But not the bad.

I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor.

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.