I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.

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.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian.

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.