I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.

No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it

The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the decisions you make each day.

One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

Put yourself in God’s hands and you can’t go wrong.

There is no such thing as a perfect flawless attitude.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.