There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

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.

I don't believe that aliens exist, but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief.

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

Someday I will have to give an account of myself. How would the Father in Heaven judge me if I followed others and not Him?

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.

I prefer to be sitting on the beach, but I can't. I want to be a billionaire.

I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.