All Sayings

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

I guess I'm not the only one who heard their first good jazz in a whorehouse.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

To be the mother of a nation is a great thing.

The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

When I am in the White House, I am the President; when I am in the country, I am a farmer.

I would rather lose in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.