As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

Like all successful politicians I married above myself.

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.