I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment.

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.

If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

This is not a just image, this is just an image.

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.