A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.