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.

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

Don't wait to buy land, Buy land and wait. Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.