I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Times change, and we change with them.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

You cannot be a light to others or yourself, if you have dark intentions in your heart.

Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

I love you, always forever Near and far, close and together Everywhere, I will be with you Everything, I will do for you.

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

Now is then's only tomorrow.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.