Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

For violence or fraud can create no right.

Liars need to have good memories.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.

It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

Thoughts are not subject to duty.

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.

I thought, 'OK, I'm done here. I'll take responsibility and go away.' Little did I know I was going to be going away limping because someone cut my legs out from under me.

I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.