Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
European lotteries are the tax on fools.
What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.
In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.
In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.