Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.

No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.

Cleaning the wound is often more painfulthan the cut itself.

Sometimes inspiration just requires looking at things from a different point of view.

In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

I am so happy, so in love, and so content.

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

I think fans cling to me because I'm a blue-collar guy in a blue-collar city.

Getting divorced was the right decision for me, but it's not the right decision for everyone else.