I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.

You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

I am whatever you make me, nothing more.

I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.

It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

If you are going to write a book, Make sure it is going to be worth reading .

Mind you, the effectiveness of one hunter’s gun does not determine the number of bush meats the other hunter will kill. You got to be yourself. Be you.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

The metal press has a certain type of audience, and I think most of them support the magazines' negative focus on me.

My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.