"Someday they're gonna write a blues song just for fighters. It'll be for slow guitar, soft trumpet, and a bell."

"Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour."

"We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings."

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

"In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less."

"Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some."

"Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child."

"To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing."

"Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base."

"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom"

"Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external."

"There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work."