For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.