Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.