Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. . . . Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere.

I'm just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have is because I have stayed an old country boy.

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.