The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.

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.

Every path that my foot has treaded was divinely ordered.

You can believe something really hard, ' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

Dedication, Determination, and hard work will feed life into your dreams.

Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.

Pretty stupid,” I called after his retreating form. “To give up before all possible solutions have been tried.

Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.

It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.