True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.

This organization (United Nations) is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.

Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.