Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.

Toleration made the world anti-Christian.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?

I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

You’ll have your own superhero club before you know it.

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.