No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

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.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.