[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.

Television is the literature of the illiterate the culture of the low-brow the wealth of the poor the privilege of the underprivileged the exclusive club of the excluded masses.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake.

I saw God! Do you doubt it? Do you dare to doubt it? I saw the Almighty Man! His hand Was resting on a mountain!

It is the leader's job to hold hope high.

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

"Jack Reacher" was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.

To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.