Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

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.

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.

Mess with a magical chic and you get some major clean-up when she is pissed!!!

Genius is of no country.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

It's very shocking for me to see pictures from my win here in 2008. I aged.

Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.

Think of the solution, not the problem

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.