The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

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.

Success without fulfillment is failure

Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working.

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.