Secession by the South was a reaction against Lincoln's high-tax policy. In 1861 the slave issue was not critical.

Because she sat where she sat, we are now sitting in Congress, ... We are sitting in the Supreme Court. We are sitting as CEOs and heads of universities.

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Any exposed piping, go ahead and cover it with foam insulation.

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.