Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

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.

To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.

Words are powerful instruments. Handle them and your understanding level of new information will grow in a spectacular way.

Famous doesn't mean anything. Just because people know my face doesn't mean they know us or that it makes us any more interesting or better.

Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

By letting go, you allow everything to find it's rightful place. Once free, everything finds its way home.

I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.