Writing is the great invention of the world.

We cannot escape history.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.