The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger that has been apprehended.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

Then join in hand brave Americans all! By uniting we stand by dividing we fall.

Behind every preventable threat to the future of the human race lurks a boy in a man's body with both hands buried deep in the cookie jar set aside for future generations.

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Is it a bad sign when you see the person you're dating and get the same feeling as if you just saw police lights in you're rear view mirror?

I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.

Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.

You don't really realize the effect those things have on you when you're growing up but then when you look back you can see how they molded you.

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.