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.

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.

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

In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn’t matter if you’re filthy. In theory anyway.

I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off first?

I drink a gallon of water a day.

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

Music is a language, a universal language.

You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

I've definitely done something that's made my mum and dad forever proud.