Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.
There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.
It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.
Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.
We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.
