My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

A man's house is his castle.

Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

Believe in yourself, refuse to waiver! Once you control your mind, you control your DESTINY here on earth.

Who are we without our memories?

There is no individual salvation without collective salvation

C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music I think about gold, blood rushing.

[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted in 1776.

Do I open it? Do I open it? Of course I freaking open it!

Saturday Night Live was a show that I never thought I would be on, because I didn't do sketch comedy and I didn't do impressions. I was a stand-up.

Necessity, thou mother of the world!

The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.