I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.

I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.