In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

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.

The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men

Thank God for daily grace.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Lincoln could be on the moon. He's still Lincoln.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

It's embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I'm glad I did.

I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored his goal was similar to Matt.

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.