The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.

No religious doctrine shall be established by law.

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

[Amy Sedaris] probably can't sit still, that type of thing. She's a force to be reckoned with.

The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.

This is a business that I have always had the last laugh in.It has nothing to do with acting, it has to do with good karma.

I like the fact that now my understanding for entertainment and the entertainment business is completely different from what it was when I first came in. I get the business side of it.

Politicians don't want democracy here in America, why would they want it in the Middle East?

The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.

It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.