The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

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.

Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

I've been interested in the reports on Rojava. It seems clear that there are positive developments.

I like challenges in life and pushing myself out of my comfort zone.

The most important things in life are intangible.