Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.