All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Get up and dance get up and smile get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught to mount the first principles and take nobody's word about them.

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.