Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.

We're more than just our job titles or our list of professional accomplishments.

I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.

Don't front, don't put something out there that you feel isn't realistic and doesn't portray who you are. Just be yourself, be you, and don't be afraid to speak your mind.

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.

Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.