The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

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.

When everything seems to be going wrong with you, you must remember the airplane takes off against the wind

There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words...

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there's more than 808s in the universe.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television?

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

I think any family would, any mother would their children.