The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.

The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.