It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

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.

If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.

Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.

What you have with her will save her. Just as it saved you.

If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down

Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into your mind.

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

I'm better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I'll be tomorrow.

You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you walk out of the theater rather than just wiling away a couple of hours.

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.