Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Reach out to the world. Be open. Help others and in doing so help yourself.

But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.

Nearly everyone wants at least one outstanding meal a day.

What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

If ever there was a mobilizing energy, it is the millennial generation. So we have the power to turn out and even to win this race. Not to split the vote but to flip the vote.

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers.

If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.