A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.