The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over the course of a hot day. A good description of the job and also a fantastic bit of practical household advice.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation; for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.