An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.

Whether the succeeding generation is to be more virtuous than their predecessors, I cannot say; but I am sure they will have more worldly wisdom, and enough, I hope, to know that honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.