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• Perhaps myself the first, at some expence of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his apologist.
  Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy, that he has been a mischevous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite....
• Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views.
  His language to the young men at Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot....
• Mr. Jefferson has reason to reflect upon himself. How he will get rid of his remorse in his retirement, I know not.
  He must know that he leaves the government infinitely worse than he found it, and that from his own error or ignorance....
• My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
  -- John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd US President, 1789 letter written when he was VP....
• That truth cannot be material in any respect, is contrary to the nature of things.
  No tribunal, no codes, no systems can repeal or impair this law of God, for by his eternal laws it is inherent in the nature of things ....
• Sir Winston carried on a life-long feud with Labour Party leader Aneurin Bevan and, on one occasion, while Mr.
  Bevan was delivering as unusually long speech to the House of Commons, Churchill slumped into his seat and appeared to doze off....
• Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.
  As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes....
• The President is my shepherd, I am in want. He maketh me to lie down on park benches, he leadeth me beside still factories, he restoreth my doubt in the Republican party.
  He guideth me to the path of unemployment for his party's sake....
• I sent a letter to the fish, I told them, This is what I wish.
  The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me....