Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

A book is the only immortality.

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

Brennan's inner jaguar roared to life then with the need to protect this woman- protect my mate, must protect my mate it snarled.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Happiness is a Swedish sunset it is there for all but most of us look the other way and lose it.

Everyone to his taste.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

The Holy Spirit truly transforms us. With our cooperation, he also wants to transform the world we live in.

Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.

Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.