The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President
It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.
He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.