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.

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

When I feel the heat, I see the light.

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

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.