"Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat."

"Try to live your life so that you wouldn't be afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

"Our Constitution protects aliens, drunks, and U.S. senators."

"You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration."

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

"Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love."