The US is safest when Congress is in recess.

No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.