A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. C. S. Lewis #10095 If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.