Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Socialism means slavery.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.

The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.

I have been much blessed.

You’ve only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it’s my birthright.

Love with freedom is superior to both the freedom without love and the love without freedom!

I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.

You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.

Glory is the child of peril.