"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."

"If studidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"

"There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators."

"Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals."

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

"You can't say civilization don't advance...in every war they kill you a new way."

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration."

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

"Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love."