The Republican party makes even its young men seem old; the Democratic Party makes even its old men seem young. - Adlai Stevenson II

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Gentlemen, there is business before your house and I propose to get right to it, obeying, as far as I can, what seems to me becoming to be known as the Republican law of gravity.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. Democracy is a high privilege, but it is also a heavy responsibility whose shadow stalks, although you may never walk in the sun.