Good ball players make good citizens.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

..it happens in all human affairs that we never seek to escape one mischief without falling into another. Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage, and in accepting a less evil as a good.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

For he who quells disorder by a very few signal examples will in the end be more merciful than he who from too great leniency permits things to take their course and so to result in rapine and bloodshed; for these hurt the whole State, whereas the severities of the Prince injure individuals only.