A.T. Baron Quotes

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

Europe is a state with several provinces

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

The thing is that where I want to go isn't necessarily tied to what's going on there politically, but I think Vietnam is a really beautiful country. I think Thailand is also really beautiful.

I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say "old."

I think Batman Returns is right for riffs. I love it but it's the ultimate Tim Burton movie. There is so much that happens that's crazy and there are a ton of things to riff.

I can't do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.

When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.

As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on.

Netflix is very protective with their information .

I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn't born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states.

One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting.

The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.

The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.

I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood.