A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

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.

I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.

But there is no value to suffering!

The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

It made her eyes fill up with tears, and she for a few more minutes starting it over, replaying it, watching his lips say the words: "We can be lonely together.

Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.