[hummdeedoo]

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a
peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be
business enough.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet
any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser than he was yesterday.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration.
One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his
government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time,
but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.