When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

To think is to differ.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

The trouble with law is lawyers.