Franklin Pierce Adams

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.