It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.

Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

In leaving the people’s business in their hands, we cannot be wrong.

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.

In ourselves our safety must be sought.
By our own right hand it must be wrought.

Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves.

Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

A nation's strength ultimately consist in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from other.

Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Only Americans can hurt America.

I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

No one can steal your peace of mind unless you let them.