I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I just wanted to play because it gets you girls.
Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.
In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.
I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.
Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.
No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.