All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.

No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.

The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.

Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.