The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

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.

Love awakens the divine-spirit of soul.

Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you've always wanted.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

My next door neighbor just had a pacemaker installed. They're still working the bugs out, though. Every time he makes love, my garage door opens.

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.