Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.
The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.
The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.
There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.
Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!
Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom. She knew she was going to give it to one of her courtiers. These courtiers would then all try to curry her favour. Meanwhile, they would not contribute anything to the product of the kingdom, in fact, they were wasting resources trying to secure a single prize. That, more or less, is rent seeking.
Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness. . . Without fires, man is just a cold rock!
That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity.
If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.