I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

Where you stand depends where you sit.

Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.

empty whiskey bottles strewn about like forgotten failures

Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment

We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.

A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.