“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.”
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“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.”
“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.”
“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
“A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”
“It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.”
“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.”
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
“A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.”
“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”
“The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.”
“Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.”
“What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.”
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”
“With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.”
“Toleration is the best religion.”
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.”
“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.”