A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

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 have been at war with parts of myself for so long

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

All is flux, nothing is stationary.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

Let me into the darkness again.

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.

As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.