Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.

It is better to spread trust all around than to hand out money!

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

Ah, but when one predator leaves, another inevitably will take its place. A void never remains a void for long.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam Hussein in charge of affairs.

The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.

I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.