I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

Times change, and we change with them.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

There is an underlying unity in all things

Knocking on the door doesn't always get you what you want, but sometimes it gives you what you need." ~ Lorna Stremcha

Human life is an incongruous combination of tragedy and comedy.

Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

Companies, however unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

It's a small world, but we all run in big circles.