The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

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.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

I want to hear one more of your storiesTangle up in your dreams, give up the fight‘Pour one more glass of that wineAnd I might not go home tonight...

Ragnor [was] always happy to see chaos, but not be involved in it.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

So long as there's a gap in your life, fill it with love.

I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married in the abstract. You find someone that you'd like to be married to.

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.