It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

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.

A writer is a thought smith

i find nothing more depressing than optimism.

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

We spend our days in deliberating and we end them without coming to any resolve.

O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

If you can have a show that has quite strong morals and cover important themes but be able to put them out to a broad audience, that's an interesting thing.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.

The world is a clock winding down.

It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me.