A rational army would run away.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

I have learned that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce!

The special calling of the artist is to call the world to a kind of rest or remind it of its restlessness

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.

Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.

We're very aware that you cannot please everybody and that there's going to be backlash. There will always be backlash.

We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election.

Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.

Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.