People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.

I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.

The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

You know Lincoln's famous remark about "God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?" Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

Now these fellows in Washington wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the majority of the people in the U.S. That would be a cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have things to decide that have nothing to do with the merit of the bill. The principal thing is of course: What will this do for me personally back home?

Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.

So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything in the world-there's not a product that you can name that we haven't got more of than any other country ever had on the face of the earth-and yet we've got people starving. We'll hold the distinction of being the only nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poor house in an automobile.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

A company is known by the people it keeps.

Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.

Don't wait to buy land, Buy land and wait. Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.

People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.

There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it.

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.

But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.

There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.

The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.

Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.