I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

I'm on a government watch list. But I'm not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour.

It's better to pick a fight with your in-laws than with your neighbors.