When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

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

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.