Solemnity is the shield of idiots

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.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

Who would you have to become and what would you have to believe about yourself to attract exactly the SoulMate you desire?

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.

He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.

I will take a pie in the face any time for a worthy cause.

True power is stillness within motion.

Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!