The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

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.

The more I drink the better I write and the more I write the better I drink.

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

The NAA way is to operate from a servant's heart, and service will be returned to you exponentially.

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.

We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar. I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.