Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

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?

I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made 'em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din.

We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

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