[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.

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.

Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him

Modern Boards set key tones in building fact-based business culture.

The end is never worth the beginning.

I've been able to learn a lot through diet and exercise, but I've got to tell you, it's having true love in your life and somebody who has your back 24 hours a day that makes the difference.

I need to stay calm and just pitch my game.

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.

If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.