We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.