"A fool and his money are soon elected."

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate -- shall I say third-rate? -- mind, Karl Marx."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your child describes you when talking to a friend."

"The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained."

"All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases."

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'guilty'."

"The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward."

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."

"If I knew that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."

"Two of the gravest general dangers to survival are the desire for comfort and a passive outlook."

"'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of the foreign world."

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

"The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments."

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

"There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement."

"Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights."

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."