In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

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.

Set aside even one day just for fun, and you will improve the next seven.

Whatever the goal, small, daily investments can bring big results.

I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

The last thing we need is another Clinton to be our President. Believe me, one lowlife was enough. We don't need the lowlife's partner.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.