Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

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.

Creativity follows uncertainty

Basically, I live to do gigs.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.

Aussie culture is pretty relaxed in general, but at the same time people know how to work really hard to go above and beyond what's expected of them.

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.