All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.

No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

Be patient and loving with yourself. You weren't meant to be your biggest critic, but your biggest fan.

You can't quit or give up before you get it!

The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you.

I'm so mean I make medicine sick!

What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the way of the dodo bird.

Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind.

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.

The other day, I got a henna tattoo that says "Forever."