He who seeks equity must do equity.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

I don't think that ... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death....

Recompense injury with justice and recompense kindness with kindness.

If you think I have a great voice and body, youll be shocked as hell seeing and hearing me in the shower.

It comes down to a choice between the Little Sisters and Big Brother, and I'm going with the Sisters.

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

When you say vision you have a track that this is what I would like to say.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

See it big, and keep it simple.