I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.