History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

I'd like that translated, if I may.

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

Have some pride, will ya? Begging someone to like you is so pathetic.

It is simply impossible for "refugees" to check their Islamism at the door.

Mechanism! Everywhere -- mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.

A totally befuddled voter may look at a Vote for McGovern sign and do just that.

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.

The U.S. team has swept all the medals in the skeet shooting event. So despite our bad economy, it's nice to know our country has never been safer from an attack of skeets.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, don't you say?

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.