God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

I don't want to say Monsanto is evil right off the bat, but why is Monsanto so evil?

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.

There are some things in the world we can't change.

I bought a gun because POW POW sounds a lot better than Hey, put that back!

Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!

It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction

To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can’t really multitask reading a book.

You go back and tell Brigham Young that I'll give up the Lord's money when he sends me a receipt signed by the Lord, and no sooner.