People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and best of all the roads that are not made yet, and the stories that no one has told because they are too busy living them.

I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.