Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice

I think if they hadn't scored, we might have got a better result.

I'm interested in how things are put together, and that's more interesting to me than just regular shows, even though I like The Walking Dead.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.

I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.