“People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.”

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

I never met a man I didn’t like.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‘How is the president?’

You must judge a man’s greatness by how much he will be missed.

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

No honest man will argue on every side.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.