With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

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.

I'm a weak man, Navani. I really am. If I give myself a few feet of leeway, I burst through all of my prohibitions.

What you believe of yourself is what you will become.

All I need is you.

I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space

I already shot my wad on the Protestants!

The Internet is the more democratic media them last times. And for being anarchical, it's open to all manifestations, artistic also.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.