That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

For violence or fraud can create no right.

Liars need to have good memories.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.

I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past time sequences. They're less "written."

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be, you start going with the status quo.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.