The deliberative sense of the community should govern.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.

Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?

It ain't my cup of meat.

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.

The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.

I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.