Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

...what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.

It is better to travel on the rough right road than smooth wrong way.

He licked her shoulder and pulled her closer, into the shelter of his body. “No worries, nysr. I’ll watch over you while you sleep. And I’m not going anywhere. Not ever.

Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.

I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.

When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.