How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.
I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.
New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.
A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.
I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
