Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

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.

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment woman accepts it as a natural heritage.

I tend to like to move on. I don't sit around and dwell on things much.

It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.

The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is flowers and kings, Is Solomon's temple, poets, Nineveh.