The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

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.

An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.

Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

People can commend the weather without envy.