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

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

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

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.

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

To be creative you actually have to do something.

All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

With people too, you constantly think, "If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better." They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?