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

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 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.

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

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

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

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