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

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

I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

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 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 Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.

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.