The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious to 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 love you more than the cookie monster loves cookies.

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.

Where there is murder, anything can happen.

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

Bad Boy Entertainment did not shoot anybody. I didn't shoot anybody.