Favorite Quotes

"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."

"I am easily satisfied with the very best."

"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."

"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks."

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on  us. Pigs treat us as equals."

"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."

"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened."

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

"A politician need the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."