The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.

The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

Easier will always win out over harder.

Nobody heeds danger when they're making money.

A salesman sees a commission.