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

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

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

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

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

No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.

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