“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

“Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that hang over human government and human society as "malice domestic and fierce foreign war." We are not...”

“When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues....”

“Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.”