The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

The nourishment from barbecue is palatable.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

I laugh as an unfamiliar feeling envelops me. I think it might be happiness.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

Most think as an OR. This OR that. The most successful among us think as an AND. This AND that.

Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics.

What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something secular people may not like very much.

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.