I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.