Political Sayings

I have no taste for politics.

I’d rather be a dictator than see the Union fail.

Therefore, if the Earth moved, it would necessarily move with a triple motion: one, the diurnal rotation on its own axis; another, the annual revolution around the Sun; and a third, the motion of its axis.

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole …