But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

Our trade opens to all the world.

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

Smartass Disciple: Master, I feel really really confused about the truth.Master of Stupidity: Only confused? Walk in my shoes then you tell me.

It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get...Is that because women are considered something less?

I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.