There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

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.

What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home.

Here in this place all souls resonate within a holy vibration.

When Martina is tense it helps her relax.

If our country got along with Russia, that would be a great thing.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.

Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.