Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.

While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of what amounts to almost full mobilization in aggressor countries. Surely they cannot afford it and if they had any definite policy of trying to work out economic salvation (except by arms) they would be showing some signs of cutting military expenditures.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.