Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

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

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.

Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.