If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

Partisanship must end at the waters edge.

Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol, story, legend, pictures, and drama. It has served as a center of union among differing backgrounds, cultures, and countries. It serves as the means of conciliating true friendship among persons, who, because of differences, must have otherwise remained at a perpetual distance.

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.