A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
Most men are not scolded out of their opinion.
The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men. . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.
the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever
You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred
I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.