Democracy, as I understand it, requires me to sacrifice myself for the masses, not to them. Who knows not that if you would save the people, you must often oppose them?

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

Pray. Not just with your words, but with your actions.

So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.

All at Once Is What Eternity Is.

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

I too was naughty as a child & played pranks. The child within us has to be kept alive because that child keeps us alive.