I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.