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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.


If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.


If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?


If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.


Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts... for support rather than illumination.


When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.


O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small.


A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and doctors. I don't believe it. They are simply the people we are most afraid of. And with the most reason.


Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.


Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.


Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.


Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.


The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.


Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.


I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10, 000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.