There’s the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
Do the best you can, and don’t take life too seriously.
The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.
There are men running governments who shouldn’t be allowed to play with matches.
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give ’em plenty of publicity.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell’em what they will do.
Don’t just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won’t get you anywhere.
People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please.
Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.