Government spending? I don’t know what it’s all about. I don’t know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn’t know much.
A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.
Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.
If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.
The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.
I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made ’em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din.
There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.
If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.
We do more talking progress than we do progressing.
We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.
More words ain’t good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else’s life.
Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.
Any person that don’t read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.
We know lots of things we didn’t use to know but we don’t know any way to prevent ’em from happening.
Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.
That’s the trouble with a politician’s life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it’s the return of my investment.
There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.