Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?

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

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.