If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.

Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.