The study of music was a family interest.

For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.

Communism which feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls shall not take root in the United States.

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.