Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.

It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it.

I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I don't know. It depends. I don't think the woods are full of candidates today.

I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.

I'm having trouble managing the mansion. What I need is a wife.

I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.

I would never understand how hurt and confused and hopeless he must have felt, to decide it wasn't worth trying, and I wasn't mad at him anymore for doing it...

But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

You might be a redneck if on your first date you had to ask your Dad to borrow the keys to the tractor.

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.