The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

We often talk too much & listen too little. The surer route to winning a friend isn't to convince them that you're right, but that you care what they think.

There is nothing new under the sun.