We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

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

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

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