What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

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

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.