I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it, it must draw its curtain round us but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent, of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents, of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

To live is to think.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

The world of reality has its limits, the world of imagination is boundless.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion if they can find out what it is.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

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