The American people are slow to wrath, but once that wrath is kindled, it burns like a consuming flame.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while th…

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to…

I don`t care how paranoid and irrational this makes me sound, but I know for a fact that the people of Paris want me dead.