There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.
I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Gardening is not a rational act.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
I think governments can't do much.
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Friendship and money: oil and water.
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
