“Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give...”

“True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.”

“Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.”

“Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.”

“This organization (United Nations) is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.”

“The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they...”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“Become 'tested' in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up.”

“Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.”

“Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.”

“I just realized that sleep sometimes is the only precious wage for the hard working man.”

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

“So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.”