Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.