Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

I said nothing of the sort.

A better idea than my own is to listen.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.