Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.

There is no education like adversity.

Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas…