If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

The two stared together into a future that held as much pain as promise, as much sorrow as sunshine...

Some people write letters, in the library.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.