Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

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 are not alone in your sorrow and suffering because the good Lord is suffering with you. He cannot see His children unhappy.

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

Americans are going to see that as the more religious a Muslim is, the more likely they're going to end up somehow fighting for ISIS' cause.

Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.

Nothing will stop me, and whether I'm here or wherever I may be, I'll always have the same feelings, I'll say what I feel.

Each thing implies the universe.

I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.

What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.