Capital Punishment
“Anybody whose pleasure is watching somebody else die is about as little use to humanity as the person being executed.”
Class Differences
“I doubt if a charging elephant or a rhino is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.”
Criticism
"There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It doesn’t take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again.”
Death
“Death knows no denomination. Death draws no color line.”
Education
“Nothing is as stupid as an educated man if you can get him off the thing he was educated on.”
Foreign Affairs
“ No nation ever had two better friends than we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.”
Health Care
“Best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can’t ask his patients what’s the matter. He’s just got to know."
Humanity
“Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.”
"The world is full of men who do big things, but when you meet ‘em they are not outstanding personalities. Pretty near everybody is almost alike.”
“Ain’t but one thing wrong with every one of us in the world and that’s selfishness.”
Humility
“No man is great if he thinks he is.”
“We should never reach so high that we would ever forget those who helped us get there.”
Law
“Terrible to have a law telling you you got to do something. But you ain’t going to do it unless there is.”
Politics and Politicians
“Party politics is the most narrow-minded occupation in the world.”
“Be a politician––No training necessary.”
“Elections are a good deal like marriages, there’s no accounting for anyone’s taste.”
“Imagine a man in public office that everybody knew where he stood. We wouldn’t call him a statesman. We would call him a curiosity.”
Purpose
“It’s great to be great, but it’s greater to be human.”
“If you live your life right, death is a joke as far as fear is concerned.”
Respect
“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”
War
“They want peace, but they want a gun to get it with.”
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