America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

Helen's books were her friends, "the kind you invite for dinner in the middle of winter, " she'd told him, " and spend all night talking and never go to bed.

Who we are’ and ‘what is our own’ that we have to understand

I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job.

This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.

I'd love to have Michael Jackson [in my show] because he's black and white. So he would appeal to a universal demographic.

Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!

If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

Finding inner success is the best, easiest and infact the only way to achieve and enjoy everything else in life.

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.