Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Sometimes people are often confused between attitude and style. Nevermind, I'm Awesome.

I hate using the word coagulant.

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

Tip the world over and everything loose falls into L.A.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

If you got the job in the first place mainly because you look nice, I can't see why you should keep it when you don't.

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.