As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.

No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

Have faith, let go, and gravitate towards.

History was once rewritten by the victors. Now we write our own immutable histories with every email, text, and post.

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong.

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.

If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.