The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

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.

Learn who you are before becoming what others want.

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

Shakespeare's great."Duh. Shakespeare's cool, man.

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

It always freaks me out when I go to a sushi place and there's a Mexican.

Filling a need that others aren't addressing has always been a focus of the companies that I have been involved with.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.