The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

Where you stand depends where you sit.

Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.

...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

Robbers*sometimes your words rob you of your thoughtsand leave you destituteand sadwill they weep for you i wonder_____________________________rassool jibraeel snyman (c) 2015"The Poetic Assassin

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

I mock everything. Don't take it so personally." Adam Black

Terrific marriages are completely respectful, transparent and loyal.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Someday social media might, hopefully in some small measure, wake up to the fact that other people's failures are not your successes.