All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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 tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men

I think there's actually a benefit to working with teen actors: they've got such boundless energy, and everybody is willing to try different things.

Since we are not in the League of Nations in any case, we do not devote our attention to reflecting on its internal reforms.

I haven't lost my head yet.

Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.

No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.

A work well begun is half-ended.