By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

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.

The world has a way of dragging down our mood.

Vanity: my favorite sin.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

All writers have the idea that they are famous.

It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.

The great thing is to become Saints.