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.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

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

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

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

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

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.