It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

The more the planners, the worse the plans.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

A drop of faith can create a hailstorm of success.

Show them how to fly and they will shine upon the clear blue skies, show them where to fly and they will fly upon the skies

I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I'm relieved that hope isn't a tangible thing, because everyone around me would see mine crumbling.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Can thought be silent?

I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.