Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.

I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.