Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.

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.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.

My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people.

Anybody who should be deported, we should deport them.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

Love yourself down to the bone, down to the roof of your mouth. Leave no stone unturned, no cell unwanted. Love down to the blood no matter how fast it boils.

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

Science is science, but a girl MUST get her hair done.

I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.