There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.
The US is safest when Congress is in recess.