There's nothing better than cake but more cake.

We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities for human welfare and happiness, so limitless in their scope; our material prosperity, so far surpassing that of earlier years; and our private spiritual blessings, so deeply cherished by all. For these we offer fervent thanks to God.

France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.