Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Share your life with others. You will have a joyful life.

We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics.

It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity.

Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

My main objective with a home studio - I could get into doing full band demos - but my first objective is to cut things like guitar tracks and solos at home.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.