The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

Happiness is a state of mind. your state of mind. So you should have some say in it

Successful people go through fear to get to where they are.

Confidence comes from what you know and not from you don't know.

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

I love Mayberry! The people here are wonderful! When I'm at the grocery store people come up and hug me. Friends pick me up and take me for rides on the Blue Ridge Parkway and I always love that.

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

Although our fight will be long and hard, our people are resolved to fight till final victory.

Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising.