Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.