“I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.”

Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

America was born a Christian nation.

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.

I’ve always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can’t be on your own, which is always so much better.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

I still like doing stand-up now, but it’s not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.