The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

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.

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

I have seen what hard work can do, and I know what more it can and will do.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

The struggles I'm facing, The chances I'm taking, Sometimes might knock me down, But no, I'm not breaking.

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.