Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

I don't make music for the moment. I make music for the future.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

I think the most important thing is to make sure that the audience is emotionally engaged with the characters.

真正的建筑总是从过去与现在的对话中产生。

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race； posterity as well as the existing generation； those who dissent from the opinion， still more than those who hold it.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Use， do not abuse...Neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

I’m not a guy that’s going to let my determination down.