"No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas"

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree"

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year"

"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it"

"Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive"

"I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn"

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas"

"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"

"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"

"We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas"

"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas"