Great Throughts Treasury

"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."

"This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation."

"This country is bigger than Wall Street. If they don’t believe it, show ’em the map."

"This country is not where it is today on account of any one man. It is here on account of the real common sense of the Big Normal Majority."

"This country just civic luncheoned itself into depression. If they will all go home and eat with their own families, they will not only get their first good lunch in years, but will be surprised how much more intelligently their own wife can talk than the “speaker of the day.”"

"This depression was deep, and you don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in."

"This open-door stuff is a lot of hooey. Any door is only open to those that have the best product at the cheapest money."

"This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one."

"This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to do is to know when to die. Prolonged life has ruined more men than it ever made."

"This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die."

"This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something."

"This would be a great world to dance in if we didn't have to pay the fiddler."

"To make money, buy some good stock, hold it until it goes up, and then sell it. If it doesn't go up, don't buy it."

"Too many people spend money they earned… to buy things they don't want… to impress people that they don't like."

"Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like."

"Trouble with American transportation is that you can get somewhere quicker than you can think of a reason for going there. What we need now is a new excuse to go somewhere."

"Try to live your life so that you wouldn't be afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

"Two things that tickle the fancy of our citizens, one is let them act on a committee, and the other is to promise to let him walk in a parade. What America needs is more mileage out of our parades."

"Villains are getting as thick as college degrees and sometimes on the same fellow."

"Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation."

"War talk in Europe has pretty near died out on account of no international conferences being held. They haven’t got much chance of getting sore at each other."

"Wars will never be a success until you have a referee and until they announce before they start just what it’s for."

"We all can't be heroes, for someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."

"We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?"

"We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs."

"We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can."

"We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things."

"We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course."

"We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot."

"We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead."

"We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poor house in an automobile."

"We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse that's overfilled with everything we want."

"We can get hot and bothered quicker over nothing, and cool off faster than nay nation in the world."

"We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory."

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."

"We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse."

"We cuss the lawmakers. But I notice we’re always perfectly willing to share in any of the sums of money that they might distribute."

"We do more talking progress than we do progressing."

"We don’t have to worry about anything. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit."

"We don’t know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it."

"We don’t seem to be able to even check crime. Why not legalize it and put a heavy tax on it. Make the tax for robbery so high that a bandit couldn’t afford to rob anyone unless he had a lot of dough. We have taxed other industries out of business, it might work here."

"We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it."

"We don't seem to be able to (stop) crime, so why not legalize it and put a heavy tax on it. We have taxed other industries out of business; it might work here."

"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business."

"We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good."

"We got a long-sighted government. When everybody has got money they cut the taxes, and when they're broke they raise 'em."

"We had a great lunch. (Senator) Capper paid for it. The Republican pays, as usual. And everything that the Democrats are doin' now, the Republicans pay for it. Everybody asks me, Will, how long is this going to go on, spending all this money and everything going like this? I says, Well, it will go on just as long as the Republicans has got any money. That's all I know about it."

"We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldn’t see any reason why we shouldn’t keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit."

"We have it on the best of our information that taxes will be relieved, but not until after your death."

"We have killed more people celebrating our independence than we lost fighting for it. We would celebrate the ending of each of our wars but we haven’t got enough people to go around."