Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?

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.

There is no substitute for hard work.

When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.

I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

With the first episode [of John Mulaney Show] I tell a story that happened to me accidentally chasing a woman down the subway.

Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities.

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings.

One of the exhilarating parts of falling in love is discovering new things about one another, and seeing the world from a different point of view.

I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.