No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

She felt very young

Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

There is definitely something that has to be said for me liking the action, Lara Croft type stuff. I really want to explore that side of me.

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

Fear is for people who don’t get out very much.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.