Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.

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.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

Sometimes d worst that happens to u produce d best in you

And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story...

I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.

Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.

I don't think that politics are as complex as people like to make them seem or out to be.

You'll feel a tingling in your chest," says a surgeon. "It's nothing to worry about.

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.