If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Nothing is more powerful than habit.

I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

Service that is given with little or no thought of personal advantage is an ideal to pursue for a lifetime.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Ones oldest friend is the best.