The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

My thing in high school was being the tallest kid in class. Always. I was always the tallest kid in class.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

You can't have oil without oil spills.

Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book.