If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

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.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

I work as my father drank.