One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.

Politics is mostly pill-taking.

Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.

Everybody slips up becaues we're not perfect

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

I didn't get the Russian Jew part because they didn't think I looked Russian or Jewish enough - and, mind you, I am both Russian and Jewish - so I was cast as the racist Mexican.

I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.

The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable