"Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove."

"A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it."

"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism."

"Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not."

"If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?"

"I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date."

"There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families."

"We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress."