Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.