Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

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.

If you want to know the secret of life, learn with enthusiasm and love with all of your heart.

When you see the sadness, failure, and darknessFind the opportunity to turn on the light of success.

Conflict is the essence of the self.

Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.

I don't want to be a politician. I want to be a leader.