Old Minds Are Like Old Horses; You

We Must Not Then Depend Alone Upon The Love Of Liberty In The Soul Of Man For Its Preservation.

To Suppose Arms In The Hands Of Citizens, To Be Used At Individual Discretion, Except In Private Self-defense, Or By Partial Orders Of Towns, Counties Or Districts Of A State, Is To Demolish Every Constitution, And Lay The Laws Prostrate, So That Liberty Can Be Enjoyed By No Man; It Is A Dissolution Of The Government. The Fundamental Law Of The Militia Is, That It Be Created, Directed And Commanded By The Laws, And Ever For The Support Of The Laws.

I Do Not Like The Reappearance Of The Jesuits... Nevertheless, We Are Compelled By Our System Of Religious Toleration To Offer Them An Asylum.

During The Whole Time I Sat With Him In Congress, I Never Heard Him Utter Three Sentences Together.

Mystery Is Made A Convenient Cover For Absurdity.