Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

The president is that invisible force that makes a school of fish suddenly change direction, so that everyone 'ohhs' and 'ahhs' at the glimmering mass and only later wonders what makes them move in that way. I read somewhere-_Harper's_, I'm fairly certain-that the fish are only avoiding pockets of extra cold water.

If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

With great victory comes great sacrifice.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.