Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.