"A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be."

"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."

"Friends are relatives you make for yourself."

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."

"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."

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