If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

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.

There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.

Money Compounding is one concept that does not hit you unless your stars are aligned

Focus is saying no to 1, 000 good ideas.

We had good years, with no violence, in a sense we were victims of our success.

Forcing yourself to shiver is one of the hardest things on your muscles and isometrics.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

You'll pardon me gentlemen if I make the fight short. I have a train to catch.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.