You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

I like power and I like to use it.

When you get too big a majority, you’re immediately in trouble.’

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

Poverty only tries men’s souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

You’ll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don’t have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

If you want to get along, go along.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you’ll never have to remember what you said the last time.