What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

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.

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

Letting your guard down, even for a moment, invites death.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

The day I pitch, I feel confident I can stop the other team.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

When I'm really stressed emotionally, I say to myself that there's only so much I can do to change things. Life happens on life's terms. Then, I go for a run.

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.