Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.

My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

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.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.