"A nation under a well regulated government,..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.”

“The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.”

“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”

“Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.”

“Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.”

“I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, "My boy's got learnin'!"”

“it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.”

“If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.”

“Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but absent enforcement, there are too many accidents.”