Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.