The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

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.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.

The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.