It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

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

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.