You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

NRA - Nuts Running America.

If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool.

All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.

I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice and proper, and watch 'em die.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.

Who or what inspires you?""I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself.

My son, Edward, at 4, to a neighbor boy who was being a pain in our backyard: "Oh, don't whine. my mom will throw you right out of here.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe, ' three times.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is.