Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.
Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
It will be celebrated. . . with pomp and parade. . . bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.
We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.
There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings. '
One of my movies was called 'True Lies. ' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.