Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.