If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

Southern DADDY—Dandy At Doin’ Diapers Y’all!

Cheat, defeat, repeat.

When the dog bites, when the bee stings... I simply remember I have a boyfriend and suddenly things don't seem quite so completely shit.

A house is a machine for living in.

The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.

We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.