ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

I have a right to be blind sometimes.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

I think it's very troubling to see the reality of where the American political establishment is going - into this big tent, which is one happy Demo-Republican family.

They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

. . . And always remember that you are Americans, and it is your birthright to dream great dreams in this sweet and blessed land, truly the greatest, freest, strongest nation on Earth.

A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much.