It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.

The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Every leader has a right to lead followers in the right direction and the responsibility to empower them to achieve much more.

The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

I like it when I strut.

The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us

IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life

The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line.

Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.