It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!

My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.

What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.

I am not a Virginian, I am an American.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

Death was Patrick Henry's second choice.