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.

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

If you believe in something because of miracles, then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.

There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.

That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.

Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!

It's important to me that youth everywhere, no matter their race, religion, or gender, know that anything is possible with perseverance.

What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook.

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.

I believe there is an unseen world all around us.