We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

Trust in God - she will provide.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.