“Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.”

“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”

“Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.”

“Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether she treat you ill or well, and never let selfish views or interests predominate over the duties of ...”

“Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.”

“Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.”

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.”

“A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”

“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.”

“About my interests: I dont know if I have any, unless the morbid desire to own a sixteen-millimeter camera and make experimental movies can be so classified. Otherwise, I love to eat and drink its...”

“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ”