Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth

At school we learn the theory to do the practice, but they didn't teach you that in real life you learn from the practice to know the theory

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.

The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.

Americans have always had innovators and entrepreneurs who built real companies and create real value, but we should not and we will not respect those who get rich by cheating everybody else.

Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.

Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.

If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.