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

[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.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

Do you think... do you think people ever learn anything?

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.

What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.

The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.

There's a Buddhist precept that the only thing you deserve is the chance to do the work, and I've been given the chance to do the work.

One of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid.

Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.

Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.