We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.