The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

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.

The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

I believe that we should do anything we can to minimize abortion and not to encourage it.

I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio.

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

When you wish upon a star, you just might become one.

Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.