Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

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.

Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.

Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word.

Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect.

The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it's so unimaginably immediate.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture.

I ain't a thug - how much Tupac in you you got?

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.