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.

[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.

I've got a Siamese cat. It has 2 heads and 18 lives.

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.

The authority of God is behind the establishing of human authority.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight.

If Diet Coke did not exist it would have been neccessary to invent it.

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims.

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.