Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out

Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.

People talk peace. But men give their life's work to war.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled