A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison.

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

Life is an incurable disease.

The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.

Nature learns and changes as a result of stimuli, and certain habitats of nature will be formed that weren't there before. That's how I look at reality.

If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.

Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.

The beginning of love is all about the butterflies, but the end of it is when you can't get out of bed in the morning.