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Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
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Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
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The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
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You can’t say civilization don’t advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
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If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
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In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
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The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
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Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.
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I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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Politics is applesauce.
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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
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If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.