The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.