It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.