The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

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.

Meditation is the conscious effort towards altering our subconscious mind

Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages.You had better run from me.My words are fire.

By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.

The United States Navy carries the might and the mission of America to the farthest parts of the world.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

Donald Trump was not a businessman to be admired, but an example of what's wrong with discriminatory corporate America.

When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you.

Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren’t.

They may be stupid, but they sure are fun.