You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.