The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other 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.

There is no necessity to live by the clock.

I am more than the person I was, I am more than who I am, and I am excited about who I have yet become.

Toys? When a man—a dom—said toys, he didn’t mean stuffed animals or baseballs.

Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?” Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed.

Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.