No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

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.

sometimes music isn't just a bunch of sounds and lyrics, sometimes it's more than that: a time machine...

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

Nothing is allowed in public, while everything is permitted behind closed doors.

When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.