No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

My life is a blessing every day that I get up. God saved my feet. How am I not going to use them?

In Islam, it is not just your right, but your responsibility to get education.

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything. . . .

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.