In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.