Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don’t need to make smart decisions—if they can get rich making dumb decisions?

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

Never ask questions you don't want the answer to.

...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.

Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could.

Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.

As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I’m so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn’t the solution as well.

My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.

America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.