[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

Of course the president Donald Trump said he wants to get to the truth. He always says that. But I think we all know that those words do not speak as loudly as his actions.

Trust is not what the framers of the United States constitution and of this country relied on.

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister." - Rev. John Hale

The universe holds a destiny in store for people who will not build their own, but they seldom like it.

Can't couldn't do it and could did it all.

I think the hardest obstacles, actually, are probably ones I've put on myself. I push myself really hard, and I think that's why I've been able to accomplish certain things.

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it.

For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be kicked out on the streets if I didn't sell enough paintings.

If you're my bestfriend I shouldn't have to ask you to lie for me.

I am not against a little inflation.