When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

When you get too big a majority, you’re immediately in trouble.

Don’t ever talk until you know what you are talking about.

Let the other fellow get the headlines. I’ll take the laws.

You’ll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don’t have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren’t.

Poverty only tries men’s souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I’d feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff.