Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

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 love and compassion of Jesus christ is not understood and felt by devils.

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

When we get to the future, I'll decide the future.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.