A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.

There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.