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• My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
  -- John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd US President, 1789 letter written when he was VP....
• Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will la
  but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes....
• We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude.
  We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country....
• You may delay, but time will not. -- Benjamin Frankli
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me. -- Lord Thurlow (1732-1806) -- 27 Parliamentary History, 680
  Annual Register, 1789...
• The meek may inherit the earth - but not its mineral rights. J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)
• A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
  -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757...
• The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad
  wicked folly of "Woman's Rights", with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety....