How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.

What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.