The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

And so back to Cassie: who was she? Part of the deception

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.

The first shall be last and the last shall be first.

Even she agreed that a woman had a right to chocolate.

When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them

Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.