Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

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.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.