Precedents once established are so much positive power.

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.

We are all souls walking on the earth.

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make that define who we really are.

You have an inbuilt goodness. Why should you allow some poisonous elements to destroy that goodness? Protect your goodness by any means. Stay away from the toxic people.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

What you cannot see in the world is far more powerful than anything you can see.