The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

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.

You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.

Despair is a cruel companion. It robs you of everything

I've always thought that we have to bring our spirituality into our everyday life such as even brushing our teeth with God.

If you can't measure it, you probably can't manage it Things you measure tend to improve.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I’ll kill him for you.” From anyone else, it would have been an idle threat, and I smiled, feeling loved. (Ivy and Rachel)

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

Do not throw in the towel; use it for wiping the sweat off your face.

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.