Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

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.

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

In each big decision, we'll always make them by faith.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.

You can only make a difference by being different.

It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.