That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

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.

God predetermine the path for each sacred soul.

View Conflict as an Adventure not a threat.

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

Magna carta. Master charga.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.