Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.