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

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.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

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

She told herself there had been nothing outside, nothing peering in at her from the darkness. Nothing at all.

I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

I think that I'm perfect.

America is a bunch o' bullies. Tell me what the Iraq uniform is like. Don't worry, I'll wait.

There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

In THE WHISPERS, I played a father, with an amazingly talented actor, Kyle Breitkopf. I've played a dad a lot, so it's nice again to be in that world [in This Is Us].

I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.