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

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

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

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

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 hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.