I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. James Madison.

The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war. Benjamin Netanyahu.

I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits either now or in the future. Period. BHO. Yeah, right.

I can’t deny I’m a better ex-president than I was a president. Jimmy Carter.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends? Edmund Burke

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. John Adams.

We live in an age of science and abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. Calvin Coolidge

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan

If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it. Margaret Thatcher