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

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.

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.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

Marriage results in two possibilities: sometimes it results in prosperity, sometimes it results in destruction.

I have always been a fire, and everyone I loved walked away as ashes, until I met a phoenix who was born to love flames.

Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth.

Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.

I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans.

Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.