I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Music heals all forms of misery

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline

It was a satisfying bravery

I still think that, hopefully, you're not ahead of the jokes, and I think that has value. There is a punchline and it's pointed - and, again, whether you think it's funny or not, that's subjective.

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.

In a change effort, culture comes last, not first.

Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.

I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.

Beware the power of the dark side.