The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

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.

If you can learn something from that person add him in your list if you can't ignore him.

If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

The defense should be expecting a run or a pass here.

Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

If a company can declare bankruptcy, why can't a country do so?

Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.