No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.