"I am not an American. I am the American."

"The human being is a machine. An automatic machine. It does not reason. It merely acts upon the impulse of the moment."

"I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough."

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."

"I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying."