[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

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.

Now I've gone for too longLiving like I'm not aliveSo I'm going to start over tonightBeginning with you and I

I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

Anger is temporary insanity.

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

I'm way too disorganized.

The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

Regeneration is the cause of faith, not faith the cause of regeneration.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.