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

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.