Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.
I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.
That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.
If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until the 4th of November will be: 'We must get our government out of the hands of predatory wealth.' 'The good people of this great country are burdened to death with taxes. Now what I intend to do is ...' What he intends to do is try and get elected. That's all any of them intend to do. Another one that will hum over the old static every night will be: 'This country has reached a crisis in its national existence.'
Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.
The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.
Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.
In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know
It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.
Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.
I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.
The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.
Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.
A successful outcome shows what hard work, perseverance and taking advantage of your opportunities will do for you.
Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!
There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.
I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.
If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.
Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!
That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.
If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.
Never miss a chance to shut up
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.
Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.
This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.
Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.
Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.
