Abandoning civil society will leave the enemy in control, not by victory but by default.

Any success against a false target is a false victory.

It is much easier to make an Active Patriot into a friend rather than the other way around.

You're a free man, act like it.

You've been taught to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's". Unlearn that lesson. Free men would not permit Caesar to exist.

The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a nonexistent devil that you do not know.

Public-sector employment — another way to be shielded from reality.

Of everything we must first ask: is it real or not?

If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us.

If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future.

Sometimes, the lessons that are learned by accident, or in the process of failing, are the most lasting.

One does what one is

I'm not young enough to know everything.

The highest form of prayer is to the goodness of God. . . . God only desires that our soul cling to him with all of its strength, in particular, that it clings to his goodness.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

I invigorated the grassroots in the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party.

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.

I was also in love with the English language.

I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

Men like that - when they know they won't be found out - they will do anything.