This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I’m glad I came, but just the same, I must be going.

Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

And stop pointing that beard at me, it might go off!

Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.