If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

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.

Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

If you make your best friend and your significant other the same person, you don't have to disconnect to go tell your girlfriend everything.

Maybe that's what I've based my career on: getting up earlier than everyone else so I get an extra couple of hours.

You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one.

Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.