The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

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.

I wanted to say "don't leave me, " but I'm so tired of begging people to stay.

For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.

I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.