Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.