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.

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?

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.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.

all night he talks and holds me, all night he loves me slow and careful.

I come from a musical kind of family.

Why can't I be the adorable one?

Kids accept a lot more, and they buy it, because they're free.

I don't paint, I hit.

The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible because those are my customers.

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

You cannot create what you want by moving away from what you don't want.