I tell you, this finding out how to govern a country, or even a state, or county, or even town, has got the whole world licked. There is not a type of government that can point with complete pride and say: There, this is the best that can be had!

I represent a new class of people in this country, the newly poor.

I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.