Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Nature will not be admired by proxy.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.