In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.