We've got to figure these things a little bit different than most people. Y'know, there's something about going out in a plane tha...t beats any other way.... A guy that washes out at the controls of his own ship, well, he goes down doing the thing that he loved the best. It seems to me that that's a very special way to die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You think you're the only guy that ever got a kick in the teeth? Well you're not. It's happening every day and it's gonna keep rig...ht on happenin' till this thing's over. And you, you can sit here and feel sorry for yourself, or you can come on out with me and see how nice people are when they're alive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a fog! Plane been buzzin' around overhead for the last half hour. Must be like trying to find your way through the inside of ...a cow. I never did see such a country. Even the birds are walkin'.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Y'know Pete, back where I come from folks call that love stuff "quick poison" or "slow poison." If it's quick poison it hurts you ...all over real bad like a shock of electricity. But if it's slow poison, well, it's like a fever that aches in your bones for a thousand years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You've been trying to keep an honest accounting of city monies. You've been dealing with politicians. You've been standing up for ...your own rights, haven't you? Naturally you landed in jail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit t...o be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.... Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well. It means that everybody should have a job, if he's willing to work, and an education, and the right to bring up his children without fear of the future. And it means that the old shall be provided for, without shame to themselves or to their families. It means do unto others as you would have others do unto you. It also means the prayers of the pilgrim fathers in the wilderness, and the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights, and the Emancipation Proclamation, and the dreams of an immigrant mother for her children. And that's what I believe in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing t...o sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Y'see it's sort of a game with me. Its whole object is to prove that two plus two equals four. That seems to make sense, but you'd... be surprised at the number of people who try to stretch it to five.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »