Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others.

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.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.

How could children have spotted what everyone else couldn’t?” “Because we haven’t killed off our imaginations, ” Aedan mumbled behind a wrapping of arms and knees.

In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

If you want to be lucky, do your homework.

The addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.