It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.

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.

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It's not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the Christian understanding of Scripture.

For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all.

I create for each individual woman to reflect her definite sense of personal style and unique beauty

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me.

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way