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.

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 point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

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.

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.

You carry stories under your bright sad eyes, bag loads and I wish to god I could help you unload.

But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.

Letting go is the one last option I have and I am too stubborn to take it

What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

Achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money.

I believe people are afraid to be still because we're used to being stimulated.

If I can find the time to do it, I'll probably become a yoga teacher.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.