I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

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.

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

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.

Not being excited is to have missed the whole point of life.

Why be broken when you can be gold?

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's Divine Presence.

I wish I knew how to sleep late! I generally wake horribly early, often with a head full of thoughts and deadlines that propel me to my computer.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.