So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.

My best training came from my father.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.