The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Dreams show us our infinate desires in life. If you dream it, you can achieve it.

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

It happens a lot, but I also think of it as not so much like being abandoned by a director 'cause they're worried about a technical aspect, but I think actually that's my job.

Working in comedies is not something I set out to do. But, I love it. I've taken some improv classes here and there, but I don't consider myself a comedian by any means.

Love is bigger than government.

It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.

What do you do when you’re living in a hut for $500 a month and subsisting on Boston Market and Subway? You just keep doing what you’re doing.

You change people by delight, by pleasure.

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.