There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

My grandma Ruthie, Jettie's sister, had been married four times, so many times I started calling every old man I saw at the grocery store Grandpa.

Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.

No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in.

The blessedness of being little!!!

There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.

The economy working - the economy growing, corporations growing and hiring people and wage increases occurring - is the worst thing that can happen politically for the Democrat Party.