War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

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.

Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon. - Persian proverb

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them.

It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

Eliminating one weakness is better than adding one strength.

Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.