Virtue has needs of limits.

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.

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

Every answer you ever need lies within your own silence..

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road The roots are deep inside us It's the rhythm in our soul.

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.