Don't I yearn for the days when a draw across the throat made f**king resolution.

You can't slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve.

The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.

Pain or damage don't end the world.

Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.

The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.

Change ain't looking for friends. Change calls the tune we all dance to.

Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.

Yeah, the cut throats and the pigs. But who wants all that blood spilled, judge, huh? Isn't there a simpler way of not pissing off the big vipers?

I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.

The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.

Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.