The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

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.

The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.

People who understand human behavior and personality tend to find flaws in every next person they meet, analyze their actions and develop bit sociopath nature.

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .

You don't really know either of us," Cam said, standing and stepping away, "but you're prepared to choose right now, huh?

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.