The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why .

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.