I emphatically stated that, 'I believe 'the blessing of heaven is upon him,' and I am persuaded that he will win this election and prevail on the war against terror in order to keep America safe from her avowed enemies,

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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

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Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance, made a fool ...

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Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

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