Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.