Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.