Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.