If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?Thomas Jefferson
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.Voltaire
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.Voltaire
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?William Shakespeare