Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

Over the last fifteen months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left to go.

The spotlight does not change a person, it simply reveals what one has mastered in the darkness

Hopes and desires are the fundamental source if creation.

The heart that bleeds, knows true heartache.-Nina Jean Slack

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.