Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

For violence or fraud can create no right.

Liars need to have good memories.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.

A memory is made up of pieces of information taken in and processed by the brain in a way that is unique to each individual.

I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

It is the Mass that matters.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.