Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.

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.

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

I really don't have to answer to nobody.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.