It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

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.

Fire looked into his quiet eyes, touched his dear familiar face and considered the question.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

It came time to go to college. My dad said, go wherever you want. Take whatever you want. He just really believed in getting out and being exposed to different things.

I don't go to bars and stuff like I used to, but I live each day to make something.

Change is a natural form of progression.

What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too?