Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

Everybody likes compliment.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.