I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

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.

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

I've always sucked at games of chance. Always hated them for that reason.

Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

Don’t try to eat an elephant for lunch.

With the Hebrew Bible, you're living in an austere world.

Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.

I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.

Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.