America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

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.

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferociousdefence? One might have supposed him amply capable of lookingafter himself.

God is the Creator of all dreams.

The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?

Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.

I think as long as you learn from your mistakes, and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.