Power should be a check on power.

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.

Are you exciting to be with... or are you boring like the rest of them?

If you believe that everyone born of God overcomes the world, your country will see the beautiful morning of a new life

Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a two-party race.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.