For my own part, I should not like to think that I ever rely on the protection of the State. But, if I deny the authority of the S...tate when it presents its tax-bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard. This makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects. It will not be worth the while to accumulate property; that would be sure to go again. You must hire or squat somewhere, and raise but a small crop, and eat that soon. You must live within yourself, and depend upon yourself always tucked up and ready for a start, and not have many affairs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no healt...h to enjoy life. I suppose it's the discipline I need; but it's rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who a...re serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am every night. She knows I have fi...fty or sixty reporters watching me day and night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming.... The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mis...takes the previous one made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,... And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bill: I have champagne, caviar, marinated truffles, brilliant foie gras and half-a-dozen assorted Hungarian gypsies. Lili: So...unds delicious. Bill: I thought we'd go on a picnic. Lili: At three in the morning? Bill: It's the best time--no ants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bill: I think maybe you have to come up with excuses just to avoid the moment of truth. Lili: What?... Bill: In a word, Miss Smith, I think it's just possible you're a virgin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »