We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves.

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 !.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which exists among many of our citizens. I hold it to be a menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish.

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