Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

Then his heart made up his mind.

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds.

Anybody who gets into bed and turns out the lights the first night in the White House probably feels a little bit of a start, where you say, "Goodness ... "

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.