The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

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.

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people

Magic has its own weight, and that weight, the gravity of it, is pulling the fabric of reality like a bowling ball on a spandex sheet.

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

Anyone can win two fights in one night, but it is the third fight that tells you if you have steel balls or not.

I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.

Within us lies the peace, the beauty, the glory of our being. There is an ocean of all that. We cannot seek it outside, we have to go within.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.