"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish."

"The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity."

"I am a man of principle, and my principle is to be ready for anything."

"Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand."

"The great art of governing is to make two-thirds of a nation content, and one-third discontented."