[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.

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.

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

I'm like any Brazilian: I like to go out and enjoy myself.

Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.

It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.