90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.