Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.