Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.

There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.

If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.