The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.