The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

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.

The more you can forgive a person, the more you can love him.

Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.

I've always been just me, but I was the last to know that it was all right.

The artist must create himself or be born again.

Blame the city I'm a product of it

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

I make too much money to play a game I love to ever feel sorry for myself.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

History is a great dust heap.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.