Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

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.

Wherever the Word of God is hidden or ignored, there will be certain destruction.

Learning is a life time journey that opens flood gates of opportunities.

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

I would say she's definitely not shy, like her dad

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.