If you owe fifty dollars you're a piker; if you owe fifty thousand dollars you're a businessman; if you owe fifty million dollars you're a tycoon; if you owe fifty billion dollars you're the government.

The high IQ has become the American equivalent of the Legion of Honor, positive proof of a child's intellectual aristocracy.... It has become more important to be a smart kid than a good kid or even a healthy kid.

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

We may not always see eye to eye, but we can try to see heart to heart.

Our toaster has two settings: too soon or too late.