There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

Business will be either better or worse.

The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!