To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

It is there as it is, not in the past, not in the future, just in the present moment. To live in the present gives a person true happiness as well as the perception of being connected to the world.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

We exploit celebrities by caring about shallow things like whether they've gotten a facelift. And we violate their children constantly. But we also love them in a way.

Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

Anyone who takes a seat in the Bundestag does so within a Europeanized constitutional framework.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.