[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.

The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.

Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?

Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.

Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

I want to say that at various points in your marriage, may it last forever, you will look at this person and feel only rage.

I appreciate anyone that tries to make this world a better place.

The ninth gift is Reverence. May you appreciate the wonder that you are and the miracle of all creation.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

Every heart has a door; knock it gently! If the door is not opened, leave gently!

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

You don't hear me lambasting, engaging in personal attacks, getting nasty. I don't think that belongs in politics.

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.