We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

I have seen the future, and it works.