While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.