There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

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.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Frankly, health care and politics are "inextricably intertwined."

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

People that have died 10 years ago are still voting, illegal immigrants are voting.

I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no ‘day before’.

Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.

Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.