You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio. I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.