You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.

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 if the poem loses?What if it never tastes victory like the intent it was written with?

I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.

Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.

A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.

It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.

[Lily] "Petunia's hair is too curly to braid," She said conversationally. Oliver wasn't sure why, but that was what finally made him blush.

I have hobbies. I do all sorts of ridiculous things.

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.