“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
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“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?”
“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.”
“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
“In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.”
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”
“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”
“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.”
“If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.”
“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying b-----d. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.”
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”
“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”
“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
“It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.”
“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
“Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.”
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”
“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”