 A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. |
| The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. |
| If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. |
| It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. |
| I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making. |
| War is a contagion. |
| I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. |
| In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people. |
| Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. |
| But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. |
| The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. |
| It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. |
| I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. |
| I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all. |
| There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. |
| Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. |
| It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. |
| It is fun to be in the same decade with you. |
| We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. |
| We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. |
