All political power is a trust.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

The magic gets lost in translation.

I kind of like the wind in my face. If it wasn’t there, I don’t know if I would push as hard.

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.