Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.