I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.

I have great respect for Catholic traditions; my family is Catholic, and it's part of my life.

Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

I think parenting these days is definitely different from when a lot of people grew up. As much blame as we give a lot of our kids for what they're not doing... I also try to give them as much credit for dealing with things that we didn't have to deal with. Bullying was one on one and face to face. Now it's all over the Internet.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

I will waste an extraordinary amount of time, you know. And if it's not watching television, I'll be sitting staring out of the window. And yes, I know there's the idea of the artist, sitting there doing nothing while things are going on, but actually, no. It's vacant space. I'm thinking about the laundry.

I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.

A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording.

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

I don't think there will ever be a GG box set.

I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.

I think that the first 'Saw' was really more of a psychological film about two people stuck in a room, and the traps and games that fans seem to embrace so much now were quite a small portion of the film.

Holy living consists in doing Gods work with a smile.

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that's what I want.

Causes of Civil War are also that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg or steal or be Souldiers.