You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

All political power is a trust.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

He was cut from the scene like a case of the runs from a can-can routine.

I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.