"Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs,Forget their feuds,..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.”

“They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.”

“Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.”

“That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.”

“Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.”

“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”

“Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”

“No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.”

“I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.”