For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

If God is One, what is bad?

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths good theatre.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies, tempered by editors.

We are what we pretend to be.

When I first arrived in this country I had only fifteen cents in my pocket and a willingness to compromise.

One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.

Ben, why didn't you tell me?

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

I never killed a man that didn't deserve it.