Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.

even there a shining is flowing from all the stonesthough the eyes are not yet made that can see it

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.

Before I got into TV, I wasn't fashionable at all.

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

Through it all nobody gets me like you do.