In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them

The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written