Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

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.

The past is far behind. If you still want to look at it, you will painfully stretch your neck muscles. Don't live in the past, leave the past, but learn from it.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

I am in very good health. I've never felt better.

The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.

I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.

Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

I could live without acting.... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.

Civilisation is a conspiracy.

Muslims are right to be angry.