Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

Everybody appreciates a compliment.

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