I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

Freedom of will is our birthright.

What great deed can parent do, than to pray for their children.

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.

I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you.

Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.