"In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships."

"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."

"As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?"

"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults."

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."

"Justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '"

"Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty."