Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.

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.

If mainstream culture thinks gender roles are unimportant, church culture makes them too important.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

I would like to have a big white wedding and eventually have a family.

In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.

Ted [Cruz], you support legalizing people who are in this country illegally.

No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.

Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.

Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.