You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.