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.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.