The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.

Don't let anyone charge you for what God has freely given.

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!

My music was made with everyone in mind with no prejudice towards anyone.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

Ive been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest.

I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.

It is one soul which animates all men.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.