There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Times change, and we change with them.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of.

No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves!

A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.

After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is

Back in the day, I came up with the expression "Same Animal - Different Cages" to describe our songs. I suppose over the years I've just broadened the meaning of that.

Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.

Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.