The Democrats in particular are do-nothing guys.

The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless.

Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night.

My country can never be taken away from me now

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

I think that self-discipline has to be accompanied by passion.

Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.

19.Rxc7N. There comes the novetly! [sic] Actually, the impression I had is that both players had more or less analyzed the rest of the game.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.