This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.