To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

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.

FIREFLAKES: The stars

You made me hate the person I was becoming—only because you wanted me to—and for that, you will never be forgiven.

If you try to hide a star behind a dark veil, it will still shine through it.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.