The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

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 know what they say: 'Once you go black, your parents don't talk to you anymore.

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights.

Ain't got no comparison and I ain't being arrogant.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

There's no one without significant creative potential.

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.