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

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

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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.

We pull back our society when we tell people to only pray for miracles.

The worst time to give someone your opinion, is when no one has asked for it.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

I'd like to play live, but the thing I do now with my synthesizers, almost everything is vocoder-driven.

While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary.

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.