One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald Reagan

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Ronald Reagan

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark Twain

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
Mark Twain

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark Twain

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Mark Twain

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Mark Twain

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Mark Twain

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston Churchill