If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.