Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us.

For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

The "paranormal" is what we call a phenomenon when examined through the narrow lens of what we consider "normal." You have to transcend the senses to understand them.

By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men.

I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor.

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish.

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.

How many things are there which I do not want.