Who are the militia, if they be not the people, of this country...? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.

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.

We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.

Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most pleasant thing.

You can focus your mind. You can respect your body. All of that is important.

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.

Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.