Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1278 |
| AUTHOR: | Richard James Cardinal Cushing (1895–1970) |
| QUOTATION: | When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Attributed to |
| SUBJECTS: | Oratory |