My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

A company is known by the people it keeps.