To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.