If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.

Man will always waste time if there is no system to check and compel him to invest his time.

I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.

Success is a possibility and a reality to its true seeker.

It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

If you have laws that you don't enforce, then you don't have laws. This leads to lawlessness.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes