Nothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first.

There is no policy which will ever be as effective a deterrent in the mind of the mass marauder as the advance knowledge - the re-thinking - that someone armed will likely be where he was headed.

The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation.

It's time to repeal gun bans everywhere in the United States.

Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.

. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by all 20,000 gun laws in force.

There is no problem anywhere on the earth which cannot be solved better under Liberty than under any other system.

Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.

You really shouldn’t trust a soul in this game. Not when everyone has something to gain or lose.

here it was the whole world wrapped inside my armsAnd I let it all slip away

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

Fashion exists for women with no taste etiquette for people with no breeding.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.

I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.

What is dignity without honesty?

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war.