The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.