Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Unfortunately, humans have a long history of trying to fix their engineering mistakes with more engineering mistakes!

A woman needs a man like a tortoise needs a crah helmet.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

[Barack] Obama is in incompetent, as a president, he's about as bad as it gets.

I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

My prayer is that people will not being ashamed to know that confession is not the end of the world and it actually brings healing.

I won't make a mark on history. I have some importance in the time we live in, but that's all.

There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me.