Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

Mom got very heated about the new government policy of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In her view it was going to allow closeted gay people into her military and she was really against it... she just assumed I agreed with her opinions.

We believe that government in Britain should be working to restore our reputation on the international stage after Iraq and engage better within Europe.

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.