To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.

If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness.

Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are.

Fear is different

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.

Your inner glow comes from the light of God, and your light can never be extinguished or soiled. You are eternally bright and beautiful.

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.