Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Necessitous men are not free men.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.