The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Times change, and we change with them.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

Be the master of your life.

That sense of entitlement is precisely where we want them because the right to happiness is directly opposed to one of The Adversary’s greatest curatives —gratitude.

As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it.

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.