There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.

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.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.

The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.